Did I mention I’ve started taking online Swedish lessons? I think not. For those of you who may be new around here, it was about a year ago that I got the idea that it would help my writing about language learning if I were actually DOING some language learning (my days of studying Italian […]
Archives for November 2017
Would you rather live in the city or the countryside?
Would you rather live in the city or the countryside? Personally I’m hedging my bets. Our home is just inside the boundary of the city of Bologna (in Italy), at the end of a bus route that takes us directly into the historic center in just twenty minutes. But it’s surrounded by ploughed fields and […]
Learn some Italian words for talking about movies!
Venerdì, finally! So there’s time to take up my shovel once more to continue ‘mucking out’ the vocabulary section of the club website. For those of you who are new around here, onlineitalianclub.com is an enormous free online resource put together over a period of several years by a mix of Italian teachers (who got […]
Ognissanti, ‘i morti’ and Buon compleanno, Hannah!
“Il primo novembre è il 305º giorno del calendario gregoriano (il 306º negli anni bisestili). Mancano 60 giorni alla fine dell’anno.” https://it.wikipedia.org/ O mio dio, only sixty more days until the end of the year? But there’s so much to do! Never mind though, today’s a public holiday in Italy – a religious one, common […]
